On October 29, 2025, the National Transportation Safety Board ( NTSB ) issued an urgent recommendation to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to ensure the main landing gear is correctly ...

To understand how a commercial jet's suspension works, it helps to first imagine a jet without suspension. The first aircraft landing gear systems were indeed that way. Engineers essentially welded ...

The NTSB issued an urgent safety recommendation for owners and operators of certain Bombardier Learjets to inspect landing ...

An F-35 fell from the air and exploded in a fireball in Alaska earlier this year. An investigation found that ice made automated systems think the jet was on the ground. The "uncontrollable" jet was ...

Ice in the landing gear caused the crash of an F-35 at Eielson Air Force Base in January, according to a new military report released this week. The pilot declared an emergency and ejected prior to ...

Mechanical part failure of a Boeing 717’s nose gear assembly may have prevented its deployment, leading a Delta Air Lines flight to land on its nose last month in Charlotte, according to accident ...

An alert warning system on the Delta Air Lines jet that flipped upside down upon landing last month signalled a fast descent before it crash-landed in Toronto, investigators have found. The Transport ...

The pilot of a small twin-engine plane burned fuel to make an emergency landing at Fort Worth Alliance Airport late Wednesday afternoon, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. The plane was ...

Failure of hardware inside a FedEx Boeing 767-300ER Freighter’s left-side main landing gear prevented the gear from extending during an August 2020 flight, leading to a gear-up landing at Los Angeles.